VMware has flicked the switch on its Horizon DaaS (desktop-as-a-service) service.
Virtzilla's service is based on Desktone, an outfit it acquired last year, and its schtick is that it allows customers to blend virtual desktops served from their premises with virtual desktops served from its cloud, an arrangement it talks up as …

The end user contracts with the Luxembourg company for their desktop services.

Only the big boys can play this kind of game because only the big boys have sufficiently expensive lawyers.

Is this a silly idea? (NB it's not a million miles from the corporate inter-country games played by the likes of Amazon and Costa and... Or even the regulator-blinding games played in the UK by BT Retail and the entirely unrelated BT Wholesale and BT Openreach).